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Document History
Title
Publication number
Summary of changes
Date
Fabric OS Documentation Updates
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New document
October 2013
Fabric OS Documentation Updates
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Corrections for Fabric OS 7.2.0
documents.
November 2013
Fabric OS Documentation Updates
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Updates for Fabric OS 7.2.1.
December 2013
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March 2014
Updates for the following:
• Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
• Fabric OS Command Reference
• FICON Administrator’s Guide
• Web Tools Administrator’s Guide
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Updates for the following:
• Fabric OS Software Licensing
Guide
June 2014
Contents
About This Document
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Brocade Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 1
Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 11
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 1, Access Gateway Basic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 3, Managing Policies and Features in Access Gateway Mode
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Chapter 4, SAN Configuration with Access Gateway . . . . . . . . . 12
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . 12
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 2, Configuring Ports in Access Gateway Mode . . . . . . 12
Chapter 2
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2, Performing Basic Configuration Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3, Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 5, Managing User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 7, Configuring Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 11, Managing Virtual Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 12, Administering Advanced Zoning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 14, Optimizing Fabric Behavior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 16, In-flight Encryption and Compression . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 18, NPIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 19, Fabric-Assigned PWWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 23, Monitoring Fabric Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 25, Managing Long-Distance Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 5, Buffer-to-Buffer Credits and Credit Recovery . . . . . 17
Chapter 17, Diagnostic Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 21, Administering Licensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix B, FIPS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Chapter 3
Fabric OS Command Reference
Documentation Updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later. . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 23
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting Key
Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Key-Compliant
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting RSA Data
Protection Manager (DPM) Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting NetApp
Lifetime Key Manager (LKM) and KeySecure Storage Secure Key
Manager (SSKM) Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting HP Secure
Key Manager (SKM) and HP Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM)
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting Thales eSecurity keyAuthority (TEKA) Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting Tivoli Key
Lifecycle Manager (TKLM) Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 5
Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 1, FCIP Concepts and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 3, Configuring FCIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 6
Fabric OS Software Licensing Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 2, Fabric OS Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 7
Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 3, Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Appendix A, Switch Type and Blade ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 8
FICON Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 2, Administering FICON Fabrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5, Maintaining and Troubleshooting FICON . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 9
Flow Vision Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 35
Changes to the Overview chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Changes to the Flow Monitor chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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MAPS Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 37
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 3 MAPS Elements and Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 1 Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Overview . . . . . 37
Chapter 2 Enabling and Configuring MAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chapter 11
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 1, Introducing Web Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 6, Managing Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 16, Configuring Standard Security Features . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 12
FIPS Configuration Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 13
Fabric Watch Administration Guide
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 7, Port Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 1. Fabric Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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About This Document
In this chapter
• How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• What’s new in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• Brocade Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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How this document is organized
This document contains updates to the Fabric OS v7.2.x product manuals: These updates include
document fixes and changes covering new features. Table 1 below list the most recently released
Fabric OS v7.2.x product manuals.
TABLE 1
Documentation Supporting Fabric OS v7.2.x
Publication Title
Fabric OS Release
Page Number
Publication Date
Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
Updates on page 11
July 2013
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Administrator’s Guide
v7.0.0 and later
No updates
April 2011
Converged Enhanced Ethernet Command Reference
v7.0.0 and later
No updates
August 2011
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
Updates on page 13
September 2013
Fabric OS Command Reference
v7.2.0
Updates on page 21
September 2013
Fabric OS Command Reference
v7.2.1
No updates
December 2013
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (DPM)
v7.2.0
Updates on page 23
July 2013
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (SKM)
v7.2.0
Updates on page 24
July 2013
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (KMIP)
v7.2.0
Updates on page 23
July 2013
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (LKM)
v7.2.0
Updates on page 24
July 2013
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (TEKA)
v7.2.0
Updates on page 24
July 2013
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (TKLM)
v7.2.0
Updates on page 25
July 2013
Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
Updates on page 27
July 2013
Fabric OS Message Reference
v7.2.0
No updates
July 2013
Fabric OS Message Reference
v7.2.1
No updates
December 2013
Fabric OS Software Licensing Guide
v7.2.1
Updates on page 29
December 2013
Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
v7.2.0
Updates on page 31
July 2013
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
No updates
July 2013
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Documentation Supporting Fabric OS v7.2.x (Continued)
Publication Title
Fabric OS Release
Page Number
Publication Date
FICON Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
Updates on page 33
July 2013
FIPS Configuration Guide
v7.2.1
No updates
December 2013
Flow Vision Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
Update on page 35
September 2013
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
No updates
September 2013
Web Tools Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0
Updates on page 39
September 2013
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0 and later
Updates on page 13
August 2014
Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0 and later
Updates on page 37
August 2014
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0 and later
Updates on page 43
August 2014
Flow Vision Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0 and later
Update on page 35
August 2014
Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0 and later
Updates on page 14
Update on page 16
Update on page 17
September 2014
Fabric OS Command Reference
v7.2.0 and later
Updates on page 21
September 2014
Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide
v7.2.0 and later
Updates on page 43
September 2014
What’s new in this document
The following changes have been made since this document was last released:
• For the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide, added information to the following sections:
- “Chapter 3, Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks” on page 14 (“FEC Limitations”)
- “Chapter 5, Managing User Accounts” on page 14 (“Setting up a RADIUS server”)
- “Chapter 16, In-flight Encryption and Compression” on page 16 (“Encryption and
compression restrictions”)
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“Chapter 23, Monitoring Fabric Performance” on page 17 (Virtual Fabrics considerations,
SOF values)
• For the Fabric OS Command Reference, added information to the following sections:
- “configure” on page 21
• For the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide, added information to the following sections:
- “Chapter 7, Port Monitoring” on page 43 (Table revisions)
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In this chapter
• Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
• Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later
The updates in this section are for the Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002919-01, published July 2013.
About This Document
The following paragraph has been modified:
All Fabric OS switches must be running Fabric OS v6.1.0 or later; all M-EOS switches must be
running M-EOSc 9.1 or later, and M-EOSn must be running 9.6.2 or later. Cisco switches must
support standards-based NPIV.
Chapter 1, Access Gateway Basic Concepts
Under “Brocade Access Gateway overview”, the following paragraph has been modified: Access
Gateway is compatible with M-EOS v9.1 or v9.6 or later, and Cisco-based fabrics that support
standards-based NPIV. You can use the command line interface (CLI), Web Tools, or Brocade
Network Advisor (BNA) to enable and disable AG mode and configure AG features on a switch. This
document describes configurations using the CLI commands. Refer to the Fabric OS Command
Reference Manual, the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide, or the Brocade Network Advisor User
Guide for more information about AG support in those tools.
Chapter 3, Managing Policies and Features in Access Gateway Mode
Under “Considerations for the Brocade 6505 and 6510”:
The Brocade 6505 and 6510 switches are shipped in Fabric OS Native mode, but can function in
either Fabric OS Native mode or Brocade Access Gateway mode. They are also supported in Access
Gateway cascaded configurations. All ports on demand (POD) licenses must be present to support
Access Gateway.
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Chapter 4, SAN Configuration with Access Gateway
Under “Connectivity of multiple devices overview”:
Switches in AG mode can connect to the following third-party fabrics:
• Fabrics operating with M-EOSc v9.6.2 or later and M-EOSn v9.6 or later
• Cisco fabrics that support standards-based NPIV.
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later
The updates in this chapter are for the Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002919-01, published July 2013, and include changes to support the Fabric OS 7.2.1 release.
About This Document
In the section “Supported hardware and software” on page xiv, add the following to the list of
supported platforms:
• Brocade 5432
• Brocade 6548
Chapter 2, Configuring Ports in Access Gateway Mode
In Table 7 on page 17, add the following entries:
TABLE 7
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Access Gateway default port mapping
Brocade model
Total ports
F_Ports
N_Ports
Default port mapping
5432
24
0, 9–23
1–8
9, 17 mapped to 1
10, 18 mapped to 2
11, 19 mapped to 3
12, 20 mapped to 4
13, 21 mapped to 5
14, 22 mapped to 6
15, 23 mapped to 7
16, 0 mapped to 8
6548
28
1–16
0, 17–27
1, 13 mapped to 0
2, 14 mapped to 17
3, 15 mapped to 18
4, 16 mapped to 19
5 mapped to 20
6 mapped to 21
7 mapped to 22
8 mapped to 23
9 mapped to 24
10 mapped to 25
11 mapped to 26
12 mapped to 27
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• Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
• Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002920-02, published September 2013.
Chapter 2, Performing Basic Configuration Tasks
In the section “Password modification” on page 63, replace the paragraph immediately following
the note with the following paragraph:
There is one set of default accounts for the entire chassis: admin, user, root, and factory. Use
the admin account when you log in to the switch for the first time and to perform basic
configuration tasks. The user account is primarily used for basic system monitoring. The root
and factory default accounts are reserved for development and manufacturing, or for
debugging. For more information on the default accounts, refer to Default accounts.
In the section “Fabric OS command line interface” on page 58, under Notes, replace the first bullet
with the following text:
• The entire command line (both commands and options) is case-sensitive. Selected command
names and options may also support Java-style capitalization. Java-style capitalization means
that while bannershow and bannerShow will both work, BANNERSHOW and BannerShow will
not. Refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference for explicit instructions on supported
capitalization for each command.
In the section “Network time protocol” on page 74, add the following:
If Virtual Fabrics is enabled, the switch behavior is as follows:
• All switches in a given chassis must be configured for the same set of NTP servers. This
ensures that time does not go out of sync in the chassis. It is not recommended to
configure LOCL in the NTP server list.
• All default switches in the fabric can query the NTP server. If Virtual Fabrics is not enabled,
only the principal or primary FCS switch can query the NTP server.
• The logical switches in a chassis get their clock information from the default logical switch,
and not from the principal or primary FCS switch.
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Chapter 3, Performing Advanced Configuration Tasks
In the section “256-area addressing mode” on page 85, change the ATTENTION statement to 48
port cards instead of 49 port cards. The correct statement is:
ATTENTION
The Brocade DCX and DCX 8510-8 Backbones have safeguards that disable all 48 port cards if
FICON Management Server (FMS) is enabled.
In the section “Enabling forward error correction” on page 111, add the following statement:
Enabling or disabling FEC is disruptive to traffic.
In the section “FEC Limitations” on page 112, replace the entire section with the following:
The following limitations apply to Forward Error Correction (FEC):
• FEC is configurable only on 16 Gbps-capable switches (Brocade 6505, 6510, 6520, M6505,
6547, 6548, 7840, and the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family).
• For switch-to-adaptor connections, FEC is supported only on 1860 and 1867 Fabric Adapter
ports operating in HBA mode connected to 16 Gbps Brocade switches running Fabric OS 7.1
and later.
• FEC is supported only on link speeds of 10 Gbps and 16 Gbps, regardless of whether the
platform is FEC-capable.
• To connect between a switch and an HBA at 16 Gbps, both sides must be in the same mode
(fixed speed, and FEC on or off) for them to communicate at that rate. If only one port has FEC
enabled, neither port will be able to see the other. If the ports are in dynamic mode, then they
may connect, but not at 16 Gbps.
• Prior to enabling FEC Transmitter Training Signal (TTS) mode, refer to your HBA documentation
to confirm FEC functionality and support. For information on enabling FEC TTS mode, refer to
the Fabric OS Command Reference.
• FEC is not supported in the following situations:
• When the HBA port speed changes to less than 16 Gbps.
• On HBA ports operating in loop mode or in direct-attach configurations.
• On ports with dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) devices that do not support
TTS.
Chapter 5, Managing User Accounts
In the section “Setting up a RADIUS server” on page 175, add the following:
The combination of “peap-mschapv2” and IPv6 causes RADIUS authentication to be rejected.
PEAP with IPv4 succeeds.
Chapter 7, Configuring Protocols
In the section “Secure Shell protocol” on page 197, add the following:
If you set up a message of the day (MOTD), the MOTD displays either before or after the login
prompt, depending on the SSH client implementation. Fabric OS does not control when the
message displays.
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Under the heading “Traps” on page 209, add the following section:
MAPS-TRAP
• mapsTrapAM
Traps to be sent for Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite (MAPS) threshold events.
Under the heading ‘Brocade MIB files’, add the following bullet:
• BROCADE-MAPS-MIB.mib
Under the heading ‘MIB loading order’, add the following row to Table 30:
TABLE 30
Brocade SNMP MIB dependencies
MIB Name
Dependencies
BROCADE-MAPS-MIB
SNMPv2-SMI
Brocade-REG-MIB
SW-MIB
Chapter 11, Managing Virtual Fabrics
In the section “Limitations and restrictions of Virtual Fabrics”, in Table 61 on page 323, the
maximum number of logical switches for the Brocade 6510 should be 3, not 4.
TABLE 61
Maximum number of logical switches per chassis
Platform
Maximum number of logical switches
Brocade 6510
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In the section “Setting up IP addresses for a logical switch” on page 333, add the following
paragraph after the Note:
The IPFC addresses are not restored in a configdownload. The IPFC address of the default
logical switch or a non-VF switch is stored on the WWN card or compact flash. This address
does not display in a configshow or configupload. For other (non-default) logical switches, the
IPFC addresses display in a confgshow or configupload, but are not downloaded to the switch
in a configdownload.
Chapter 12, Administering Advanced Zoning
In the section “Zone database size” on page 362, replace the Attention note with the following
note:
ATTENTION
In a fabric that has a mix of switches running versions of Fabric OS both earlier and later than version
7.0.0, if you run the cfgSave or cfgEnable commands from a switch running a pre-7.0.0 version of
FOS a zone database size of 128 KB may be enforced. Whether this occurs depends on the specific
version of pre- FOS 7.0.0 firmware the switches are using.. For a detailed list of pre-FOS 7.0.0
firmware compatibility versions, please see the Zoning Compatibility Note in the Release Notes.
Note: This change supercedes the change in the 53-1003064-04 version of this Document update
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Chapter 14, Optimizing Fabric Behavior
In the section “Limitations and restrictions for QoS zone-based traffic prioritization” on page 424,
remove the following bullet:
• Traffic prioritization is not supported on 10-Gbps ISLs.
Chapter 16, In-flight Encryption and Compression
In the section “Encryption and compression restrictions” on page 446, add this bullet:
• Port mirroring through any encryption-enabled port or compression-enabled port is not
supported.
Chapter 18, NPIV
The section “10-bit addressing mode” on page 474 applies to the DCX 8510 Backbone family as
well as the DCX Backbone family. Change this section to the following:
10-bit addressing mode
The 10-bit addressing mode is the default mode for all the logical switches created in the
Brocade DCX and DCX 8510 Backbone families. The number of NPIV or loop devices supported
on a port is 64.
Table 78 shows the number of NPIV devices supported on the Brocade DCX and DCX 8510
Backbone families.
TABLE 78
Number of supported NPIV devices
Platform
Virtual Fabrics
Logical switch type
NPIV support
DCX and DCX 8510-8
Disabled
N/A
Yes, 127 virtual device limit.1
DCX and DCX 8510-8
Enabled
Default switch
Yes, 63 virtual device limit.1
DCX and DCX 8510-8
Enabled
Logical switch
Yes, 255 virtual device limit.2, 3
DCX and DCX 8510-8
Enabled
Base switch
No.
DCX-4S and DCX 8510-4
Disabled
N/A
Yes, 255 virtual device limit.
DCX-4S and DCX 8510-4
Enabled
Default switch
Yes, 255 virtual device limit.
DCX-4S and DCX 8510-4
Enabled
Logical switch
Yes, 255 virtual device limit.3
DCX-4S and DCX 8510-4
Enabled
Base switch
No.
1. Maximum limit support takes precedence if user-configured maximum limit is greater. This applies to shared
areas on the FC4-48, FC8-48, FC16-48, and FC8-64 port blades.
2. The first 112 physical NPIV-capable devices connected to a logical switch using 10-bit addressing can log in
255 logical devices. The physical NPIV-capable devices after 112, 113, and higher, are limited to 63 logical
devices.
3.
16
Maximum limit of 63 for 10-bit areas connected to third-party (non-Brocade) NPIV HBAs.
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Chapter 19, Fabric-Assigned PWWN
In section “Supported switches and configurations for FA-PWWN” on page 483, remove Brocade
7800 from the list of supported switch platforms. FA-PWWN is not supported on the Brocade 7800.
Chapter 23, Monitoring Fabric Performance
In the section “Virtual Fabrics considerations for Advanced Performance Monitoring” on page 552,
replace the first bullet following the table with the following bullet:
• Top Talker monitors and EE monitors are supported on the default logical switch and
user-defined logical switches.
In the section “Creating a frame monitor” on page 559, change the Start of Frame (SOF) field mask
in the example from 0xFF to 0x0F.
In the section “Displaying frame monitors” on page 561, change the SOF field mask in the
“fmmonitor --show” example from 0xFF to 0x0F.
Chapter 25, Managing Long-Distance Fabrics
In the section “Configuring an extended ISL” on page 589, correct the typo in the first paragraph in
step 4:
4. For 8-Gbps platforms only, enter the portCfgFillword command to set ARB as the fill word.
Refer to the Fabric OS Command Reference for more information on configuring the fill
word for a single 8G FC port.
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002920-02, published September 2013, and include changes to support the Fabric OS 7.2.1
release.
Chapter 5, Buffer-to-Buffer Credits and Credit Recovery
In the section “Buffer credits switch or blade model” on page 143, add the following entries to
Table 15:
TABLE 15
Total FC ports, ports per port group, and unreserved buffer credits per port group
Switch/blade model
Total FC ports (per
switch/blade)
User port group size
Unreserved buffer credits per port group
5432
24
24
484
6548
28
28
7712
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In the section “Maximum configurable distances for Extended Fabric” on page 144, add the
following entries to Table 16:
TABLE 16
Configurable distances for Extended Fabrics
Maximum distances (km) that can be configured (assuming a 2112-byte frame size)
Switch/blade model
2 Gbps
4 Gbps
8 Gbps
10 Gbps
16 Gbps
5432
486
243
121.5
N/A
N/A
6548
7714
3857
1928
N/A
964
Chapter 17, Diagnostic Port
Starting in Fabric OS 7.2.1, D_Port functionality is supported on 8 Gbps Brocade-branded
LWL/ELWL SFP transceivers.
In the section “Supported platforms for D_Port” on page 460, add the following section:
Supported SFP transceivers
The ports must use Brocade-branded or certain Brocade-qualified SFP transceivers. The
following SFP transceivers are supported:
•
•
•
•
8 Gbps Long Wave Length (LWL)
8 Gbps Extended Long Wave Length (ELWL)
10 Gbps Fibre Channel
16 Gbps
For D_Port functionality with 8 Gbps SFP transceivers, the switch must be running Fabric OS
7.2.1 or later.
To run D_Port tests on a link with 8 Gbps SFP transceivers, both ends of the link must have the
same type of SFP. That is, both ends of the link must have LWL SFPs or both ends must have
ELWL SFPs.
In the section “General limitations and considerations for D_Port” on page 462, add the following
items:
• On 8 Gbps LWL and ELWL SFP transceivers, only link traffic can be run. Electrical and
optical loopback tests are not available on 8 Gbps SFP transceivers.
• On 8 Gbps LWL and ELWL SFP transceivers, if the cable length is less than or equal to 100
meters, the length is displayed as “unknown”. If the cable length is greater than 100
meters, the length is displayed accurately.
• On 8 Gbps LWL and ELWL SFP transceivers, D_Port functionality is not supported if a
Brocade HBA is on the other end of the link.
Chapter 21, Administering Licensing
In the section “Ports on Demand” on page 535, add the following to the list of supported Brocade
models:
• Brocade 6548—Can be purchased with 16, 22, or 28 licensed ports. A maximum of 28
ports is allowed.
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In Table 86 on page 535, add the following entry:
TABLE 1
List of available user ports when implementing PODs
Platform
Available user ports,
No POD license
Available user ports,
POD1 or POD2 present
Available user ports,
Both POD licenses present
Brocade 6548
1–10 and 17–22
POD1: 11–13 and 23–25
POD2: 0, 14–16, and 26–27
0–27
Appendix B, FIPS Support
The information in this appendix is now in a separate document. Refer to the new “FIPS
Configuration Guide”, part number 53-1003111-01, for FIPS support information.
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The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Command Reference, publication number
53-1002921-02, published 9 September 2013.
configure
Replace the description for the Location ID parameter with the following text:
The Location ID parameter affects routing calculations, and should remain set to the default value of 0 for
normal use. Do not change the value unless explicitly instructed to do so by a Brocade Support engineer.
firmwareDownload
Add constraint to the password operand:
Spaces cannot be used in the password string to connect to FTP or SCP servers.
frameLog
Add du and unroute options to -type operand.
OPERANDS
-type du
Specifies du for destination unreachable frames.
-type unroute
Specifies unroute for unroutable frames.
snmpConfig
Add constraint to the password operand:
snmpv3 Configuration Parameters
The SNMPv3 configuration password must have at least 8 characters.
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bottleneckMon
Updated the notes section to include all supported platforms:
To support buffer credit recovery, E_Ports must be connected between devices that support 16 Gbps or
between devices that support 8 Gbps.
•
Devices that support 16 Gbps:
•
Brocade 6505, 6510, 6520, M6505, 6547
FC8-32E, FC8-48E,FC16-32, FC16-48, FC16-64
Devices that support 8 Gbps:
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Brocade 300, 5100, 5300, 5410, 5424, 5450, 5480, VA-40FC
FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48
By default, buffer credit recovery is not enabled on any of the platforms.
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Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting Key
Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Key-Compliant
Environments
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (KMIP),
publication number 53-1002924-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 2, Configuring Encryption Using the Management Application
• In the section “Displaying and deleting decommissioned key IDs” on page 117, the paragraph
notes:
When disk LUNs are decommissioned, the process includes the disabling of the key record in
the key vault and indication that the key has been decommissioned.”
This statement is true for all key vaults except TEKA KMIP. TEKA KMIP does not modify keys
that have been decommissioned.
• In the section, “Displaying Universal IDs” on page 112, after step 4, a NOTE states, "You will
need to export the decommissioned key ID to the key vault." This NOTE is inaccurate and
should be removed. The Key ID/UUID displayed in this dialog is informational, and can be used
to cross reference on the respective key vault where the decommissioned Key ID is manually
deleted.
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting RSA Data
Protection Manager (DPM) Environments
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (RKM),
publication number 53-1002922-01, published July 2013.
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Chapter 2, Configuring Encryption Using the Management Application
In the section, “Displaying Universal IDs” on page 99, after step 4, a NOTE states, "You will need to
export the decommissioned key ID to the key vault." This NOTE is inaccurate and should be
removed. The Key ID/UUID displayed in this dialog is informational, and can be used to cross
reference on the respective key vault where the decommissioned Key ID is manually deleted.
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting NetApp Lifetime
Key Manager (LKM) and KeySecure Storage Secure Key Manager
(SSKM) Environments
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (LKM),
publication number 53-1002925-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 2, Configuring Encryption Using the Management Application
In the section, “Displaying Universal IDs” on page 86, after step 4, a NOTE states, "You will need to
export the decommissioned key ID to the key vault." This NOTE is inaccurate and should be
removed. The Key ID/UUID displayed in this dialog is informational, and can be used to cross
reference on the respective key vault where the decommissioned Key ID is manually deleted.
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting HP Secure Key
Manager (SKM) and HP Enterprise Secure Key Manager (ESKM)
Environments
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (SKM/ESKM)),
publication number 53-1002923-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 2, Configuring Encryption Using the Management Application
In the section, “Displaying Universal IDs” on page 102, after step 4, a NOTE states, "You will need
to export the decommissioned key ID to the key vault." This NOTE is inaccurate and should be
removed. The Key ID/UUID displayed in this dialog is informational, and can be used to cross
reference on the respective key vault where the decommissioned Key ID is manually deleted.
Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting Thales
e-Security keyAuthority (TEKA) Environments
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (TEKA),
publication number 53-1002926-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 2, Configuring Encryption Using the Management Application
In the section, “Displaying Universal IDs” on page 98, after step 4, a NOTE states, "You will need to
export the decommissioned key ID to the key vault." This NOTE is inaccurate and should be
removed. The Key ID/UUID displayed in this dialog is informational, and can be used to cross
reference on the respective key vault where the decommissioned Key ID is manually deleted.
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Lifecycle Manager (TKLM) Environments
The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide (TKLM),
publication number 53-1002927-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 2, Configuring Encryption Using the Management Application
In the section, “Displaying Universal IDs” on page 100, after step 4, a NOTE states, "You will need
to export the decommissioned key ID to the key vault." This NOTE is inaccurate and should be
removed. The Key ID/UUID displayed in this dialog is informational, and can be used to cross
reference on the respective key vault where the decommissioned Key ID is manually deleted.
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The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS FCIP Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002928-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 1, FCIP Concepts and Features
Under “IP WAN network considerations,” the first bullet entry is modified as follows:
• Routers and firewalls that are in the data path must be configured to pass FCIP traffic (TCP
port 3225) and IPsec traffic, if IPsec is used (UDP port 500). The Brocade TCP implementation
selects a port between 49152 and 65535 as the ephemeral (or initiating) port to open up to
port 3225.
Chapter 3, Configuring FCIP
In Table 10, Circuit options:
• Under Adaptive rate limiting (ARL), the correct valid ranges for -min-comm-rate are 10,000
Kbps through 1,000,000 Kbps for GbE ports and 10,000 to 10,000,000 Kbps for 10 GbE
ports (XGE). Add to note that the rate does not need to be an integral value of 1,000,000 and
both sides of the tunnel must have matching configurations.
• Under Adaptive rate limiting (ARL), for -max-comm-rate add to note that the rate does not need
to be an integral value of 1,000,000, the maximum committed rate can be no larger than five
times the minimum committed rate, and both sides of the tunnel must have matching
configurations.
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The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1003110-01, published December 2013, and include changes to support the Fabric OS 7.2.1
release.
Chapter 2, Fabric OS Licenses
In the section “Available Fabric OS licenses” on page 7, change the description of Enterprise ICL to
the following:
TABLE 1
Available Brocade licenses
License
Description
Enterprise ICL
Allows you to connect four or more chassis to a Brocade DCX 8510 chassis
using ICLs. For each Brocade DCX 8510 chassis, you can connect up to three
Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones via ICLs without this license. This license is
required only on the Brocade DCX 8510 chassis that is connected to four or
more Brocade DCX 8510 chassis.
Note that this license requirement does not depend upon the total number of
DCX 8510 chassis that exist in a fabric, but only on the number of chassis
connected directly to a Brocade DCX 8510 via ICLs.
You must also have an ICL POD license on each Brocade DCX 8510 to
activate the ICL ports. The Enterprise ICL license only allows connection of
more than four chassis using ICLs; it does not enable the ICL ports on a
chassis.
NOTE: Applies to the Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone family only.
In the section “Enterprise ICL license” on page 21, modify the description of Enterprise ICL to the
following:
The Enterprise ICL (EICL) license allows you to connect four or more Brocade DCX 8510 Backbones
through ICLs. This license is available on the Brocade DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 platforms only.
Modify the first bullet entry as follows:
• Connection of three or fewer DCX 8510 Backbones with ICLs does not require the EICL license.
However, EICL license is required on a Brocade DCX 8510 chassis when that chassis is
connected to four or more DCX 8510 Backbones via ICLs.
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The updates in this section are for the Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide,
publication number 53-1002930-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 3, Connectivity
In the section “Segmented fabrics” on page 37, delete the item “Disable device probing” from the
list of fabric parameters that must be identical for a fabric to merge. The resulting list should be the
following:
The following fabric parameters must be identical on each switch for a fabric to merge:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
R_A_TOV
E_D_TOV
Data field size
Sequence level switching
Suppress class F traffic
Per-frame route priority
Long-distance fabric (not necessary on Brocade DCX, DCX-4S, 6505, 6510, 6520, and the
Brocade DCX 8510 Backbone families; for more information regarding these product
types, refer to Appendix A, “Switch Type and Blade ID”.)
Appendix A, Switch Type and Blade ID
In Table 22 on page 104, the Brocade 300 should have 24 ports and not 16. Change the entry for
switchType 71 to the following:
TABLE 22
switchType to B-Series model converter
switchType
B-Series switch model
Base switch speed
71
300
8 Gb 24-port switch
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The updates in this section are for the FICON Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002931-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 2, Administering FICON Fabrics
In the section “Mode 0 (10-bit addressing)” on page 27, replace the first paragraph with the
following:
This mode is called “Disabled” in the Brocade Network Advisor. It is not supported for FICON,
but can be used for mainframe FCP channels associated with zLinux or zVM partitions. That is,
on a chassis in a FICON environment, you can utilize a logical switch or default switch only in
zero-based addressing mode (mode 1) for FICON, even if 10-bit addressing mode (mode 0) is
enabled on a different non-FICON logical switch.
Chapter 5, Maintaining and Troubleshooting FICON
In the section “Blade swapping” on page 73, add the following item to the list of restrictions:
• Faulty blades cannot be swapped.
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The updates in this section are for the Flow Vision Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002999-01, published September 2013.
Changes to the Overview chapter
This change applies to the Overview chapter.
In the “Flow Vision configuration setup” section, change the first paragraph to read:
To download a Flow Vision configuration to the switch, use the configDownload command.
To save the Flow Vision configuration up to the host FTP site, use the configUpload command.
The configDefault command deletes all flows and simulation ports (SIM-Ports) from the switch.
Changes to the Flow Monitor chapter
The following changes apply to the Flow Monitor chapter.
In the section “Overview of Flow Monitor”, add the following bullet:
• The SCSI statistics SCSI Read/Write Frame Count and SCSI Read/Write Data are supported
only for F_Ports for any flow configuration where either srcdev or dstdev exists on the switch,
and the flow is defined using either srcdev, dstdev, ingrport or egrport (with or without bidir) or
srcdev, dstdev, lun, ingrport or egrport.
In the “Flow Monitor limitations” section, add the following bullet:
• On an Access Gateway switch, if a monitor flow is created without using any advanced options
it works fine, but if you delete this flow and then re-create the same flow and reuse the flow
name, srcdev, and dstdev values but add advanced options (lun or bidir); the flow will fail to be
created, and the error message “Flow monitor install ioctl failed”is displayed. The solution is to
give the re-created flow a different name than the original flow.
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The updates in this section are for the MAPS Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002933-01, published 26 July 2013.
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later
The updates in this section are for the MAPS Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002933-03, published November 2013.
Chapter 3 MAPS Elements and Categories
In the “Port Health” section, add the following note to the ITW entry in Table 5.
NOTE
The ITW counter includes any physical coding sub-layer (PCS) violations. ITW violations can occur
due to an “encoding in” or “encoding out” violation, a PCS violation, or all of these. Encoding
violations occur only at slow (8 Gbps or lower) speeds, and PCS violations occur only at high (10Gbps
or higher) speeds.
Chapter 1 Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Overview
Under "Migrating from FabricWatch to MAPS":
• Replace -enablepolicy with -policy.
• Revise the first bullet to read:
Using this process, the Fabric Watch configurations are converted to MAPS policies. Refer to
“Fabric Watch legacy policies” on page 23 for additional information. To avoid converting the
Fabric Watch configurations when you activate MAPS, do not run the mapsConfig --fwconvert
command.
Chapter 2 Enabling and Configuring MAPS
Under “MAPS configuration quick start”:
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• Change step 2 to:
Migrate from Fabric Watch using the mapsConfig --fwconvert command to import the Fabric
Watch rules.
• Follow this with a new step:
Enable MAPS using the default policy by entering mapsConfig --enablemaps -policy.
• Change the example under step 6 to the following:
switch:admin> mapsconfig --fwconvert
switch:admin> mapsconfig --enablemaps -policy dflt_aggressive_policy
The WARNING text remains the same.
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The updates in this section are for the Web Tools Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002934-01, published September 2013.
Chapter 1, Introducing Web Tools
Under the heading, “System requirements”, add the following note after the statement, “Web Tools
requires any browser that conforms to JRE 1.7.0_25 or later.”
NOTE
If there are multiple JRE versions installed, go to the Java Control Panel and uncheck the lower JRE
versions for Web Tools to launch using the latest JRE version.
Under the heading, “Technical SupportSave logs”, replace the following text:
“From v7.1.0, WebTools allows you to log information of the switch at any given point of time.
SupportSave is a dump of the switch status that collects the following details of the switch:
• HTML files
• CAL files
• WebTools logs folder”
With this:
“From v7.1.0, Web Tools allows you to collect the following Web Tools-related SupportSave data.
NOTE
Web Tools SupportSave collects logs for troubleshooting Web Tools. To collect switch logs, use the
SupportSave command through the FOS CLI or the Technical Support feature in Brocade Network
Advisor.
• HTML files
• CAL files
• WebTools logs folder”
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Under the heading “Java Plug-in configuration”, add the following:
Launching Web Tools from a browser or Brocade Network Advisor is done using Java Web Start
technology. This requires the local system's web browser to be able to run Java web start
applications. This setting may have been turned off in the wake of recent Java zero-day
vulnerabilities.
To turn on Java content in the browser, perform the following steps:
1. Launch Java Control Panel.
2. Click the Security tab and select Enable Java content in the browser check box.
This enables the Java plug-in in the browser.
3. Click Apply.
When the Windows User Account Control (UAC) dialog box displays, allow permissions to make
the changes.
4. Click OK in the Java Plug-in confirmation window.
You can now enter the IP address of the switch and launch Web Tools from a browser.
Chapter 6, Managing Ports
Under the heading, “Configuring NPIV ports” remove the following sentence as NPIV license is not
required to enable NPIV functionality on a port.
The NPIV license must be installed on a switch before NPIV functionality can be enabled on any
port.
Chapter 16, Configuring Standard Security Features
Under the heading “Guidelines and restrictions”, add the following bullet after the “For some
functionality and operations. . .” paragraph:
In order for the user-defined role to have access to the System Monitor which displays CPU and
Memory Usage under the Monitor tab, you must assign read/write RBAC_FabricWatch
permissions to the Chassis Access Role.
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• Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later
The updates in this section are for the FIPS Configuration Guide, publication number
53-1003111-01, published December 2013.
This change applies to the FIPS Switch Preparation chapter.
In the section “Enabling FIPS mode”, add the following under step 29:
When configuring FIPS mode, the crypto key value needs to be 128 and above.
In the section “Notes on enabling FIPS mode”, add the following bullet:
• When FIPS mode is enabled on the switch, the cryptographic key value cannot be configured to
less than 128. This is to ensure compliance with FIPS 140-2.
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Fabric Watch Administration Guide
In this chapter
• Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
• Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.1 and later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Documentation updates for Fabric OS v7.2.0 and later
The updates in this section are for the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002998-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 7, Port Monitoring
In Table 15, “Port class areas” starting on page 49, remove the rows for “Packet loss (VE_Port
only)” and “Utilization”.
In Table 21, “Recommended port fencing thresholds”on page 64, replace the rows for Link reset
(LR) and State change (ST) with the following values:
TABLE 1
Recplacement port fencing thresholds
Area
Moderate/recommended threshold
Aggressive threshold
Conservative threshold
Link reset (LR)
Low 0
High 5
N/A
N/A
State change (ST)
Low 0
High 5
N/A
N/A
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In Table 22, “Recommended port fencing thresholds” on pages 87 and 88, replace the table with
the following table (highlights show changed values):
TABLE 2
Recommended configuration for the Port class
E=Error_Log, S=SNMP_Trap,
P=Port_LOG_LOCK,
M=EMAIL_ALERT, pf=Port Fence
Low Thresh
High Thresh
Buffer
Default
Minute
0
500
50
X
Sync Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
500
50
X
Signal Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
Protocol Error
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
Invalid Words
X
Errors
Minute
0
25
0
X
E
Invalid CRCs
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E
X
E,S
RX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
100
0
X
TX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
100
0
X
Changes
Minute
0
7
0
X
State Changes
E_Port
Link Reset
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
C3 Discard
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
Link Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
0
0
X
E,S
Sync Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
45
0
X
E,S
Signal Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
45
0
X
E,S
Protocol Error
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
Invalid Words
X
Errors
Minute
0
40
0
X
E,S
Invalid CRCs
X
Errors
Minute
0
20
0
X
E,S
RX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
75
0
X
E
TX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
75
0
X
E
Changes
Minute
0
7
0
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
State Changes
(E/VE_Port)
X
X
Link Reset
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Notes
Time Base
Errors
Above
Unit
X
Below
Default
Link Loss
Custom
Area
Port
Custom
Class
Trait Configuration
X
Utilization (VE_Port)
X
Percentage
Minute
0
100
0
X
Packet Loss (VE_Port)
X
Errors
Minute
0
10
0
X
C3 Discard
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
Trunk Util
X
Percentage
Minute
0
75
0
X
E
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TABLE 2
Recommended configuration for the Port class (Continued)
E=Error_Log, S=SNMP_Trap,
P=Port_LOG_LOCK,
M=EMAIL_ALERT, pf=Port Fence
High Thresh
Buffer
0
15
0
X
E,S
Sync Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
45
0
X
E,S
HOST
Signal Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
45
0
X
E,S
Protocol Error
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
Notes
Low Thresh
Minute
Above
Time Base
Errors
Below
Unit
X
Custom
Custom
Link Loss
Default
Area
FOP_Port and
FCU_Port
Default
Class
Trait Configuration
Invalid Words
X
Errors
Minute
0
80
0
X
E,S,F
pf
Invalid CRCs
X
Errors
Minute
0
40
0
X
E,S,F
pf
RX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
85
0
X
E
TX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
85
0
X
E
State Changes
X
Changes
Minute
0
7
0
Link Reset
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
C3 Discard
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
Percentage
Minute
0
100
0
Trunk Util
X
X
E
X
FOP_Port and
FCU_Port
Link Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
15
0
X
E,S
Sync Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
45
0
X
E,S
STORAGE
Signal Loss
X
Errors
Minute
0
45
0
X
E,S
Protocol Error
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
Invalid Words
X
Errors
Minute
0
80
0
X
E,S,F
pf
Invalid CRCs
X
Errors
Minute
0
40
0
X
E,S,F
pf
RX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
85
0
X
E
TX Performance
X
Percentage
Minute
0
85
0
X
E
State Changes
X
Changes
Minute
0
7
0
Link Reset
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
C3 Discard
X
Errors
Minute
0
5
0
X
E,S
Trunk Util
X
Percentage
Minute
0
100
0
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X
E
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The updates in this section are for the Fabric Watch Administrator’s Guide, publication number
53-1002998-01, published July 2013.
Chapter 1. Fabric Watch
In the section “Logical switch support”, replace bullet 3 with the following bullet:
• On logical interswitch links (LISLs), Fabric Watch supports state change notifications in the
same manner as for normal E_Ports and uses the same threshold values for LISLs as for
E_Ports, but does not support threshold areas such as link loss or signal loss.
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